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Mohammad Mahdavi

Mohammad Mahdavi

Academic rank: Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Science
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Research

Title
The Study of Thermal Conditions on Weibel Instability
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Weibel electromagnetic instability, relativistic plasma, electron-ion scattering
Year
2015
Journal Advances in High Energy Physics
DOI
Researchers Mohammad Mahdavi ، Henghameh Khanzadeh

Abstract

Weibel electromagnetic instability has been studied analytically in relativistic plasma with high parallel temperature, where |𝛼 = (𝑚𝑐2/𝑇‖)(1 + 𝑝̂⊥2 /𝑚2𝑐2)1/2| ≪ 1 and while the collision effects of electron-ion scattering have also been considered. According to these conditions, an analytical expression is derived for the growth rate of the Weibel instability for a limiting case of |𝜁 = √𝛼/2(𝜔󸀠/𝑐𝑘)| ≪ 1, where 𝜔󸀠 is the sum of the wave frequency of instability and the collision frequency of electrons with background ions. The results show that in the limiting condition 𝛼 ≪ 1 there is an unusual situation of the Weibel instability so that 𝑇‖ ≫ 𝑇⊥, while in the classic Weibel instability 𝑇‖ ≪ 𝑇⊥. The obtained results show that the growth rate of the Weibel instability will be decreased due to an increase in the number of collisions and a decrease in the anisotropic temperature by the increasing of plasma density, while the increase of the parameter 𝛾̂⊥ = (1 + 𝑝̂⊥2 /𝑚2𝑐2)1/2 leads to the increase of the Weibel instability growth rate